The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-03-16
PEOPLE sugucLy MENTIONED.
What the Newspapers Are Saying About
Persons Who are Wen Known.
Ada Rehan used to be school teacher in

What the Newspapers Are Saying About
Persons Who Are Wen Known.
Ada Rehan used to be school teacher in
Bridgeport, Conn
Gen Sherman smokes briar root pipe
which solacad him during the march through
Georgia.
Henry Wstterson has become total alb
stainer since his sickness, and turns down his
wine glasses at dinner parties.
Mr. Wilson Barrett says be Is always verv
nervous when he goes on the stage. and pers-
pires until be can hear tho sweat drops from
his face patter on the floor like rain.
Mrs. ]. ". Smith. of Orange, N j., is a
famous tricyclist During the past year she
rode 1858 miles, :, ,23S Of which were with her
husband on a tandem machine; the other AIS
were alone.
Jennie June has seen the women Of all na-
tons, and has made up her mind that Ameri-
can women stand at the head for health,
complexion, taste and good temper She
believes that American men should patronize
home enterprise.
Queen Margaret of Italy is exceptionally
susceptible to cold, and seldom is without a
heavy wrap, even in well warmed rooms
Her own apartments in the Quirinal are kept
at a Temperature which is to most people op-
pressiveIy hot.
Henry Clews, the Wall street broker, re-
marks that ~the man who can't make milk
and honey 70 live ON out OF the prosperity
which is going to prevail throughout the
country for the entire year of 1857 ought to
die for the benefit of his family When a
man has a few millions to begin with the
crop Of milk and honey IS very easily har-
vested
Lille Stuck the 14-year-old daughter of
the Pennsylvania state librarian, composed
the words and music of a ~Slumber Song"
Her music teacher advised her to allow him
to rearrange and publish it, as he said it was
so intricate, so delicate, and so difficult of
rendition that ordinary singers could not do
justice to it. She declared she would not
have the score changed, saying she had made
it unusually difficult for a special purpose
Then she sent it to Adelina Patti. signing an
assumed name. A few days ago she heard
from Nine. PATHS private secretary that the
diva was singing the "SiumbeT Song in con-
certs in the west
A strange case of absent mindeeness came
to light in the office of the recorder of deeds
at Washington recently In July, 1884, a
gentleman had deed made of record. also a
deed of trust, Frederick Douglass at the
time being recorder. Subsequently a deed of
release was secured, and Monday the papers
were returned for further record. In ex-
amining the deed it was dated as of record
July 16 1854 and ON the back signed James
G. Blaine, recorder of deeIs,n in the hand
writing Of Mr. Douglass, showing that the
recorder was at that time absorbed in mind
about the Blaine boom to such an extent as
to write that gentleman's name where the
recorders should have appeared.
Mrs. Martha C-avens, residing near Clark's
Fork, Cooper county, has in her hennerv
quite a curiosity in the shape of young
chicken which was Matched from what is
known as a double egg. 1t has four perfectly
formed legs and feet and two heads pointing
opposite to each other, but only one body.
In eating only one bin peczs the food at
time and one head seems almost hfeless when
the other chiTps. In running around the hen
house, however, the two heads do not always
agree, one head and pair of legs trying to 90
to the right, the other heading for the left
Mrs. Cravens thinks she has quite treasure
in this strange freak of nature, and if it lives
until spring she viii offer it for sale to some
museum.-Ro Rocheport (A1o.) Commercial.
A queer old party is dead in France. Ever
since 1857 III. Bertron has presented himself
at every general election as the "m0del repre-
sentative Of the human race Though he has
been a candidate for every Office, it is a sad
commentary on the esteem in which emodel
candidates" are held that he has commonly
received but one vote-his own. N Bertron
was gentle, guileless, old man, exquisitely
neat and very rich and eccentric He had
the finest pear orchards in France and gave
all the fruit to the poor-proof positive of
eccentricity. Some time ago be invited by
telegraph all the crowned heads of Europe to
dine with him, but, like great many invited
guests nearer home, they didn't ''get there